Paranormalist Lorraine Edwards is Coming to Campus to Speak this Saturday
Lorraine Warren, paranormalist and trance-medium, is coming to the University October 1 at 8:00 pm in Wilson Hall to talk about her life and paranormal experiences she has had. The event is free and a ticket is not required.
Lorraine Warren and her late husband Ed Warren, demonologist, have dedicated their lives to investigating paranormal activity throughout the country. The Warrens have been called upon for famous cases such as the Haunting in Connecticut and the Amityville Horror.
Lorraine said, on an interview with CUTV Newscenter, “I was nine years old and I was in a private catholic girl’s school and I began to see lights around the nuns. I looked around and realized I could see lights around some of the girls as well.”
Lorraine went on to explain how she didn’t know what the lights meant and as far as she knew everyone could see what she saw. She suppressed it until she eventually met her husband.
Lorraine is known as a trance-medium. A trance-medium is someone who can communicate with spirits.
Ed Warren said on their website, www.warrens.net, “Many times we use three or four mediums in one place. We take them into a house one at a time. They don’t know where they’re going, what the case is about, etc. And if they all tell me the same thing; that they see a woman spirit in a certain room or a man or a child, then I know that we’re on the right track.”
In 1989 the Warrens proved in a court of law, with photograph and recorded evidence, that a family was driven out of their home by ghosts.
“We won the case,” said Ed, “We set a precedent here in the United States.”
Megan McGowan, Assistant Director of the Student Activities Board, organized the event to have Lorraine come to the University and talk. According to McGowan, student activities surveyed that the number one type of lecture for students was on the paranormal.
McGowan said, “The Warrens, and later Lorraine came to my college every year and would fill every seat and all standing room.”
Lorraine will tell stories of her experiences with the supernatural, show pictures of supernatural presences caught on film and play audio of a famous exorcism. In addition, she will answer questions.
“If you are skeptical about ghosts, after seeing Lorraine, you will believe,” said McGowan, who is excited to see Lorraine speak once again.
The New England Society for Psychic Research was founded in 1952 by the Warrens. The goal at first was to simply investigate hauntings Ed had said on their website.
Having claimed to have grown up in a haunted house, Ed was always looking to learn more about others and their experiences.
Around 1965, the Warrens went into a home where they encountered the spirit of a little girl named Cynthia. They listened to the little child coming through a deep-trance medium; she was looking for her mother.
Ed thought to himself, “This is horrible, this little child is earthbound. She’s looking for her mother constantly day in and day out. How do I help this child?”
Since then the NESPR has been dedicated to helping people in need when dealing with strange phenomena in addition to simply investigating it.
NESPR’s work is based in religion but also uses science, the website read.
Ed was quoted on the site saying, “…I have the scientists with me and they’re looking for something else and we get together and we talk and straighten the whole thing out. Nobody can bring us into a house and fool us. You couldn’t tell us that your house is haunted and get away with it because I’m the biggest skeptic going. I have to see it, I have to hear it and I have to feel it with the physical sense.”
Lorraine and Ed have appeared in numerous newspaper and magazine articles, as well as on radio and television.
Their national television credits include 20/20, Phil Donahue, Entertainment Tonight, The Joan Rivers Show, Today Show, Prime Time, and Good Morning America.
Lorraine Warren is 84 years old, her husband Edward passed away in 2006 at the age of 79.
Taken directly from the Warrens website, “The Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal and they exist today. In a world that scoffs at ghosts and laughs at the unusual, the Warrens deliver a contrary message. That message is this: The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.”
PHOTO COURTESY of Megan McGowan
